GA Tech? Rankings?

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is a absolutely terrible comparison.

Emory is not Harvard.

Sure, between Georgia Tech (Overall #30, CS #5) and Harvard CS (Overall #1, #13), one should choose Harvard.

Between Georgia Tech (Overall 30, CS #5) and Emory (Overall #24, CS >#80), anyone serious about CS would pick Georgia Tech. This is the reality of engineering schools. The US News rankings rank based on factors that help business/pre-med/liberal arts students, not engineering students.

GT is ranked 38 on US news and 68 on WSJ rankings. There's no comparison between the two schools. In fact the gap is growing.

The difference between 30 and 38 is negligible, as is the difference between 24 and 38. After the top 10-15 universities, most universities are interchangeable within the top 40.

The difference between #5 and #80 in the CS ranking is massive.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

This is the craziest post of all...you would easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered? Meaning, you want the school that offers the least?

What's crazy is writing posts and making college decisions without doing your due diligence. Not including research opportunities, CalTech offers 20 mechanical engineering courses open to undergrads this semester. MIT has 34. Georgia Tech has over 70. I see no reason to believe it's any different for other focuses within the department.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

This is the craziest post of all...you would easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered? Meaning, you want the school that offers the least?

What's crazy is writing posts and making college decisions without doing your due diligence. Not including research opportunities, CalTech offers 20 mechanical engineering courses open to undergrads this semester. MIT has 34. Georgia Tech has over 70. I see no reason to believe it's any different for other focuses within the department.

Oops, I conflated the two topics and was thinking of Georgia Tech. You may be right. My apologies. I meant you could easily pick Ga Tech based on number of classes offered.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This was never GT against the world. Harvard is top rated in just about every discipline, including CS, so of course you are going to pick Harvard.

This is one troll somehow making the case that you may pick Emory for CS (where it is #82) vs. GT for CS where it is #5? Of course you would not. Unfortunately, most of the discussion is apples-to-oranges because Emory barely has a STEM program, so the kids applying to GT for STEM are not applying to Emory.

Also, Emory is rated #21 overall vs. #38 for GT. Higher yes, but it is big difference comparing Harvard to Emory (where all the Harvard folks are infuriated that the two schools are mentioned in the same breath), then the #21 school to the #38 school.

Berkeley is ranked #22, but I doubt many people on this board would say they would pick Emory over Berkeley (unless you absolutely knew you wanted to reside in the Atlanta/SE US).

You might not pick Harvard over GA Tech if you care about the weather in the winter. Or about saving money for grad school. Or about the total number of STEM classes offered.

It's hard to argue about Emory vs Berkeley, but you could easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered, cost, male/female ratio, quality of sports teams, social life options, weather (MIT only), etc.

This is the craziest post of all...you would easily choose Emory over CalTech or MIT based on number of STEM classes offered? Meaning, you want the school that offers the least?

Yup, you're right. I was trying to do too much at once when I wrote this, and was still thinking of Ga Tech when I wrote what I did about Emory. I am appropriately humbled.

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I'm confused in this thread but again for undergrad. Grad ranking don't matter. It's quite obvious Employers don't pay GT students more when the salary is 75k for engineering. For grad school the department ranking matters for undergrad.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

No, they don’t apply. It’s not a school that someone who wants a traditional college experience applies to. Emory is like an NYU.

I’ll also add that Emory is what, 70k a year? GT is $0 with the hope scholarship.

+70,000 more reasons 😀

Emory is good for premed, they do not have any other undergraduate major in top 10

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

No, they don’t apply. It’s not a school that someone who wants a traditional college experience applies to. Emory is like an NYU.

I’ll also add that Emory is what, 70k a year? GT is $0 with the hope scholarship.

+70,000 more reasons 😀

Emory is good for premed, they do not have any other undergraduate major in top 10

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Anonymous wrote:I went to HS in Georgia, in a place where most kids who went to college stayed in state (and went public). Tech was where the smartest STEM kids went. No, it's not on par with MIT or CalTech, but it's an excellent and highly respected school. As others have noted, Emory was for rich, out-of-state folks. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

They don't go because they can't get into Emory. Gatech instate acceptance rate is 40%, Emorys is closer to 10%. I agree that is apples and oranges.

No, they don’t apply. It’s not a school that someone who wants a traditional college experience applies to. Emory is like an NYU.

I’ll also add that Emory is what, 70k a year? GT is $0 with the hope scholarship.

+70,000 more reasons 😀

Emory is good for premed, they do not have any other undergraduate major in top 10

Clearly don't know much about Emory or Gatech.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is a absolutely terrible comparison.

Emory is not Harvard.

Sure, between Georgia Tech (Overall #30, CS #5) and Harvard CS (Overall #1, #13), one should choose Harvard.

Between Georgia Tech (Overall 30, CS #5) and Emory (Overall #24, CS >#80), anyone serious about CS would pick Georgia Tech. This is the reality of engineering schools. The US News rankings rank based on factors that help business/pre-med/liberal arts students, not engineering students.

GT is ranked 38 on US news and 68 on WSJ rankings. There's no comparison between the two schools. In fact the gap is growing.

The difference between 30 and 38 is negligible, as is the difference between 24 and 38. After the top 10-15 universities, most universities are interchangeable within the top 40.

The difference between #5 and #80 in the CS ranking is massive.

Bumbing this thread but Emory is ranked 20/21 usually, not sure which ranking you're looking at. Emory is in an odd place because even for the majors it's not as good at, it's acceptance rate is low. If you can get into Emory for CS you can surely get into GaTech or UT Austin. OR Stern if it's business. But I disagree with you after about 25 or so. There is a large drop off in the quality and prestige of the school. GaTech is a great STEM school but it doesn't even provide an English major.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is terrible advice.

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Anonymous wrote:For undergrad, students should pick the school that's more prestigious generally speaking. GT is ranked higher than Harvard for CompSci but would your DC really pick GT CS over Harvard CS if lucky enough to get in?! Exactly, same principle applies to Emory. Unless your instate Emory is the better choice as it's just the better school. If you want to pay 50k+ for a school ranked 40ish be my guest but many of us wouldn't.

This is terrible advice.

It's not terrible if you knew anything about the tech industry you would know a UTAustin CS grad is seen the same as a Georgetown CS grad.

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My $0.02.

I work for an aerospace firm. We have a ton of GT grads at my firm. They are all very impressive. In terms of ability to do the job, there's nothing to choose between them and an MIT or VA Tech grad. (Of course, if you got into MIT, you should go there, and VA Tech is much cheaper than GT for Virginia residents.)

Never met an Emory grad at work.

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Georgia Tech is a very unusual school. It is not like Virginia Tech, or Purdue, but in Georgia. It has a narrower focus (but with lots of minors available). That, plus its location, should be a consideration for anyone considering the school. Georgia Tech will not offer the typical "college experience" that schools like Virginia Tech (or Purdue) offer. Over the years, I have come to believe that Georgia Tech would probably better serve most high achieving engineering types through its graduate school. This is reflected in the numbers, where the number of graduate students exceeds undergrads by an astonishing 50% or so. It is an excellent school. It may safely be included in any discussion of top engineering schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My $0.02.

I work for an aerospace firm. We have a ton of GT grads at my firm. They are all very impressive. In terms of ability to do the job, there's nothing to choose between them and an MIT or VA Tech grad. (Of course, if you got into MIT, you should go there, and VA Tech is much cheaper than GT for Virginia residents.)

Never met an Emory grad at work.

That's fair, Emory doesn't have an aerospace program so that makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgia Tech is a very unusual school. It is not like Virginia Tech, or Purdue, but in Georgia. It has a narrower focus (but with lots of minors available). That, plus its location, should be a consideration for anyone considering the school. Georgia Tech will not offer the typical "college experience" that schools like Virginia Tech (or Purdue) offer. Over the years, I have come to believe that Georgia Tech would probably better serve most high achieving engineering types through its graduate school. This is reflected in the numbers, where the number of graduate students exceeds undergrads by an astonishing 50% or so. It is an excellent school. It may safely be included in any discussion of top engineering schools.

It's a bit overrated. It is there to support UGA but UGA now has engineering so...